Hello Heidi, Guessing what comes next is tough. If you lurk and read here it will become obvious that symptoms and causal factors, even diagnosis-diagnoses-plural, are all over the place. That is one of the reasons that attitude, psycology, nutrition,excercize, supplements all come into play. We all seek relief and use every card in the deck available. I was curious if you had any trauma before you developed foot-drop? I slipped on a wet floor and hyper-extended my knee to instigate my foot-drop. Back to sililarities. A couple years ago I had a car accident and three days later I had that "bee-sting" running from my right hip to inside of right knee. Started water therapy, then a couple weeks later physical therapy. 60 days post accident i felt cross-firing to left side and Bam I had "it" on both sides. I was sent home from PT as I was losing ground. I had lumbar pain, hip pain, knee pain,bottocks, all starting with that "burning pathway". I don't write this to shock or worry as my wasting has stopped and strength is returning and I have quit using a walker. Learn to use the search function and study for mitochondrial health, search Amyotrophy, fight the panic and many start a journal because over time it will cut down on the guessing. Good Luck, Ken in Texas.

Heidi, I don't have the asthma challenge but had a lifetime of allergies/sinus issues prior to 1995 and I was 57 at that time...so many many years of allergy issues....went the whole route, drugs, allergist...and NO HELP.....addicted to the drugs and HOPING for help from allergist....Never Happened.

In 1995 I found OPC's....Pycnogenol first and took it for a year and allergies GONE. Then I switched to grape seed extract and been on these constant for going on 20 yrs..

No drugs no allergist ANYMORE. The main reason I went on Pycnogenol back in 1995, we were told it MAY prevent cancer...and so far so good in that category too. I'm 77 soon.

Now a friend who is asthmatic and pretty severe allergies has been on grape seed for probably like 7 yrs or so and she is MAJORALLY improved with her challenges. She is a bridge friend and years ago I gave her a book I owned to read and the rest is history. She has her husband on grape seed ex for general health maintenance.

Here is a good informative link, read it thru:

www.emaxhealth.com › ... › Asthma Treatment and Symptoms
Oct 25, 2013 - Asthma is a common, chronic and inflammatory condition of the lungs. ... Grape seed extract contains OPC (oligomeric proanthocyanidins) that ...


(When you get to this link, go to the Asthma search and you will find the info listed above.)

It's not a cure all but makes one's life more manageable. I've posted about OPC's on the vitamin/supp section here and also in the Allergy Section. And another area too...I can't say enough about these OPC's...which are: Pycnogenol, Grape Seed Extract, Resveratrol and a couple others....

welcome Heidi,

I am sorry for what you are going through. From your post it sounds like your symptoms are just on the one leg. Have they done any nerve conduction study related to your nerve drop? Have they recommended MRI for your back since you have the thigh shooting pains? It sounds like you could have something going on with an impingement somewhere.

sending hugs,

Do u take all of these at once? Or just the grape seed extract or just resveratol? Etc.
Can u take these with magnesium, vitamin c and d, aloha lipoic acid, acetyl l csrnitine and gabapentin?

The only disclaimer I know of is IF ON PHARMA BLOOD THINNER THEN YOU CAN'T TAKE BOTH, ONE OR THE OTHER.

My main OPC is grape seed extract, vitacost sells a muscadine grape seed that is high in resveratrol and I take it also...I work with both the extract and pain grape seed.

I took Pycnogenol for the first year in 1995 and then tons of research, read books, own books, I did it all.

I take so many supps and there has never been an issue for me in almost 20 yrs....

These OPC's strengthen our IMMUNE SYSTEMS...work on circulation and clean our sticky, dirty blood.

I take my 200mg grape seed ex first thing in morning on empty stomach, I've never had a stomach issue, but if one does, take it with food. The 500mg grape seed (Muscadine cap) from vitacost, I take much later in the day. This is what I do, you can start lower and work up, learn to work with OPC's....we need to take enough for our bodyweight. C

Guess where all the seeds that used to be in our grapes go? A lot go into grape seed extract....the seeds are the MOST important part of the grape. Most powerful part of grape.

I use DGL daily as I take Ibuprofen and this is how I protect my stomach lining.